The baobab stores thousands of gallons of water in its spongy wood. The elephant has a special relationship with the baobab, eating its fruit and spreading its seeds. The elephant also uses this ...

Large trees can store as much as 37,000 gallons of water sucked up during rainy seasons. Thirsty elephants often strip a baobab of its bark and wood to get their moisture.

The tree stood to a height of five elephants standing one on top of another. Its wide hollow trunk could house all of the 120 baboons of Slyboon’s family.

The ‘elephant tree’ at Golconda Fort, the biggest baobab outside Africa and Australia, is now under threat by climate change and ‘artificial environment’ induced by increased human ...

Africa's ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the "tree of life," is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest and oldest dying abruptly in recent years.

Large trees can store as much as 140,000 liters (37,000 gallons) of water sucked up during rainy seasons. Thirsty elephants often strip a baobab of its bark and wood to get their moisture.

Elephants help to propagate the trees when they eat baobab fruit, with seeds often sprouting in the nutritious elephant dung.